TPM Episode 449: Kimmy Fasani, Pro Snowboarder
The Powell Movement
Mike Powell
4.9 • 860 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Kimmy Fasani is a trailblazing snowboarder who, not by choice, made a huge difference in women's sports. Kimmy went from "Rider of the Year" to becoming a mom and when we last podcasted, the theme was, "will my sponsors stick by me?". They did, but really, keeping sponsors is the last of Kimmy's life worries. Between losing her parents to cancer, to having cancer, to so many other things, Kimmy's life is not close to as easy as it looks and this podcast and her movie "Butterfly in a Blizzard" give a real look into what it's like to have the best of times and the worst of times. It's a heavy podcast and Sherry McConkey asks the Inappropriate Questions.
Kimmy Fasani Show Notes:
4:00: Grateful Dead experiences, Butterfly in a Blizzard, her Dad's cancer, meeting Chris, her mom gets diagnosed with cancer, coping mechanisms, and getting pregnant
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23:00: C-section, did she lose sponsors, molestation, bottles, kidney failure,
40:00: Elan Skis: Over 75 years of innovation that makes you better.
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42:00: Chemo, ringing the bell, a surprise Baldface trip, finding her snowboarding, Natural Selection, knee issues, and the movie changing so much
57:00: Inappropriate Questions with Sherry McConkey
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Have a seat on your porcelain throne. |
| 0:02.3 | It's time to talk some shit on the Powell Movement. |
| 0:13.3 | Welcome to the Powell Movement. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm your host, Mike Powell, |
| 0:18.5 | and I know I've been hammering you in these intros with stuff about |
| 0:21.5 | cancer and then losing my wife and then her celebration parties. And while the future of these |
| 0:26.7 | intros are going to be about snow and getting my life back on track and who knows what else, |
| 0:31.7 | I do have one more thing to share about Anja Beluza. So Saturday night of that weekend, |
| 0:36.6 | her celebration weekend, was the bar night at the Admiral Benbow. And it was packed and it was awesome. I went back there a couple days after the party to pick up some of the things I left behind and the bartender came up to me and she thanked me so much for having the party at the Benbow. And I was like, no, thank you. We really needed this venue, you guys gave it to us, it was great. And she was like, no, thank you. Even though there was a huge |
| 0:58.0 | block. at the Benbow. And I was like, no, thank you. We really needed this venue. You guys gave it to us. It was great. And she was like, no, thank you. Even though there was a huge block party and they did think they'd get a huge crowd in the Benbo, our party was better. And I was like, what do you mean? And she's like, look, I was the first person hired at this bar when they reopened in like 2021. And since we've opened, we haven't had a night where we've made more money |
| 1:12.9 | than we did on Angeppaloosa night. And since I've been the first bartender here and I've probably |
| 1:18.1 | worked here more than anybody else, she could honestly say that there hadn't been a more fun night |
| 1:23.0 | in her entire time at the bar. And she was like, it was just because the vibe inside was so fun and all |
| 1:28.9 | the people were just so kind and happy to be there partying for their friend, Ann. So it's pretty |
| 1:33.7 | cool that she set the record. And to be honest, Ange's friends and mine too are really, really good at |
| 1:39.6 | partying. And, Anne's literally and figuratively sets the bar for what to do on a celebration of life night. |
| 1:46.7 | I mean, any other celebration I go to that's going to be at a bar, I'm secretly going to be |
| 1:51.1 | wondering, well, did they break the record in sales of the bar? |
| 1:54.2 | Because Anne did at her celebration of life. |
| 1:57.1 | And to be honest, it's not a contest. |
| 1:58.8 | I mean, if you're in the contest of how your celebration of life did at a bar, you've already lost because you're dead. So not a contest any of us want to be in. That's enough about sad stuff in this intro. I've got so much more of that in the podcast. This is another heavy one. It's with a trailblazer of an athlete and an incredibly strong human, Kimmy Fasani. |
| 2:18.5 | I've already recorded part one with Kimmy, so you can hear her life and times from about eight years ago on the podcast. |
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